• Make sure that you know and understand the following things (which are in my slideshow linked in this post):
The definition of the derivative at a point
What it means to say that a function is differentiable at a point or on an open interval
The definition of the derivative function
The various notations that are used for the derivative function
• Do the WeBWorK assignment “DerivativeDefinition”. You can wait to do the assignment “DerivativeFunction” until after Wednesday’s class (after Test 1 we will have class). Please note that you should be using the definition of derivative, and not any shortcuts you may know, in order to compute the derivatives of problems 2 and 3 in “DerivativeDefinition”.
• Also do the following problems from the textbook:
p. 56 # 19-27 odd (see this post for some notes)
p. 69 #1, 3, 5, 10, 12, 13-19 odd (part (a) only)
p. 85 #5, 11-19 all, 21, 33-38 all (tangent line only)
There will be a Quiz on Monday. The topic will be using the definition of derivative to compute a derivative.
Don’t forget, if you get stuck on a problem, you can post a question on Piazza. Make sure to give your question a good subject line and tell us the problem itself – we need this information in order to answer your question. And please only put one problem per posted question!
